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The Essential Guide to Cost Containment Strategies for Higher Education

Resources to address administrative costs in five key areas

January 18, 2024

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As institutions face tightening budgets and uncertainty about future revenues, campus leaders are seeking opportunities to mitigate unnecessary costs and increase financial efficiency across every part of the enterprise: talent, administrative workflows and organizational structure, academic affairs, technology, and facilities.

In this resource center, we’ve catalogued near-term and long-term tactics for cost containment across five functional areas of colleges and universities:

  • Labor Cost Containment
  • Workflow and Org Design Cost Containment
  • Academic Affairs Cost Containment
  • Technology and IT Services Cost Containment
  • Facilities and Auxiliaries Cost Containment

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